School officials: Restraint cases isolated, don't indicate wider problem Last year, the Manchester School District had two special needs teachers charged criminally for abusing young, severely disabled children, one a 6-year-old child weighing 40 pounds, and the others, elementary age boys, one of whom is blind. In the police investigation files of those cases obtained by the New Hampshire Union Leader, there were other allegations of abuse that included keeping a child strapped to a padded wooden chair the entire school day - a regular practice for that child - and of a little girl fitted with a back brace being placed inside a Plexiglas box, her shirt pulled ... Continue reading... http://www.unionleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20150614/NEWS04/150619563
